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May 17, 2013 - 9:08 AM
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FORMER kids’ TV series Doctor Who is now aimed at Stephen Hawking, according to show runner Stephen Moffat. After watching Doctor Who he winds down with some equations. As the series reaches a mind-bendingly complex conclusion far beyond the comprehension of normal minds, Moffat revealed he just wants to entertain Stephen Hawking. Stephen Moffat said: “You can pander to kids, or you can go for the more select demographic of the world’s top physicist. “There was literally nothing on telly these days to complicated enough to challenge Stephen Hawking, so we made it our goal to ‘make Steve’s brain hurt’.
“Of course families can enjoy the show too, provided one of them has a PHD and a set of flow charts detailing the many concurrent plotlines and which characters are their own parents.” Describing the series finale, Moffat said: “I feel I can give this away because you won’t understand it in any case – Davros returns, escaping a parallel time stream in which the Doctor is married to Captain Jack. “This causes a fracture in the universe allowing the cybermen to form an alliance with the zygons and take over Victorian London. They stop River Song being born by destroying time itself with a gravity bomb inside the fourth incarnation of K-9's ghost. Meanwhile, the ‘our universe’ Doctor uses the time-fracture to finally save the character Adric – from the 1982 story Earthshock - thus preventing the dinosaurs from becoming extinct and alters the course of evolution so that all the human characters become reptiles. “It’s such a mindeo, Stephen Hawking is going to love this.”
Professor Stephen Hawking said: “The stories are way too complicated for me, I watch it for the monsters and the cute girl.”
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/doctor-whos-target-audience-is-stephen-hawking-2013051769169
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May 18, 2013 - 2:22 PM
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Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has thanked the programme's fans for keeping the secrets of the season finale.
Following the early release of the US Blu-Ray discs containing the series climax, the BBC asked recipients to keep the secrets of the show until after the broadcast of the show earlier this evening, promising a special video clip would be released as a reward.
Moffat told the Guardian
Well that was all a bit Keystone Cops, wasn't it? Our biggest surprise, our most secret episode, a revelation about the Doctor that changes everything ...
... and we'd have got away with it too, if we hadn't accidentally sent Blu-ray copies of Name Of The Doctor to 210 Doctor Who fans in America. Security-wise, that's not GOOD, is it? I mean, it's not top-notch; it's hard to defend as professional-level, hard-line secrecy.
My favorite fact is that they're Blu-Rays. Listen, we don't just leak any old rubbish, we leak in high-def – 1080p or nothing, that's us. Every last pixel in beautifully rendered detail. It's like getting caught extra naked.
But here's the thing. Never mind us blundering fools, check out the fans. Two hundred and ten of them, with the top-secret episode within their grasp – and because we asked nicely, they didn't breathe a word. Not one. Even Doctor Who websites have been closing their comments sections, just in case anyone blurts. I'm gobsmacked. I'm impressed. Actually, I'm humbled. And we are all very grateful.
Now you might be thinking, what does all this matter? It's a plot development in the mad old fantasy world of Doctor Who, why is that important? Well of course, it's not important, and in the scheme of things, it doesn't matter at all. Just as it doesn't matter when you're telling a joke, and some idiot shouts out the punchline before you finish. It's irritating, that's all. It's bad manners.
Well, no bad manners here! Two hundred and ten Doctor Who fans kept the secret, and many, many more fans helped. I wish I could send you all flowers, but I don't know where you live (and, given our record, you really shouldn't be sharing private information with us). So instead, there is a little video treat.
Ten plus 11 gives you ...
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/05/dwn180513190012steven-moffat-thanks-fans.html
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May 22, 2013 - 6:38 AM
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Doctor Who has been presented with a Peabody Award, one of the highest honours in American media.
The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service by broadcasters, cable and webcasters, producing organizations, and individuals. Selection is made by the Peabody Board, a 16-member panel of distinguished academics, television critics, industry practitioners and experts in culture and the arts.
The citation reads:
Seemingly immortal, 50-years-old and still running, this engaging, imaginative sci-fi/fantasy series is awarded an Institutional Peabody for evolving with technology and the times like nothing else in the known television universe.
The award was accepted by Steven Moffat, Jenna-Louise Coleman, and Matt Smith at a ceremony in New York last night.
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/05/dwn210512210012doctor-who-wins-peabody-award.html
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Aug 16, 2013 - 4:26 PM
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Big Finish have announced a limited edition vinyl release (500 copies) of their upcoming multi-Doctor audio, The Light at the End. The drama is due this November and unites the five surviving Doctors from the classic era, alongside several companions.
Available to pre-order now, and released in November, 500 numbered copies of The Light at the End will be pressed in heavy 180g vinyl. The four-disc set, containing the adventure and a making of documentary, will be presented in a beautiful four-way gatefold sleeve, with rigid slipcase and an exclusive 30cm x 30cm lenticular image.
You can order The Light at the End: Limited Edition Vinyl HERE for an special pre-order reduction of £99.99 (RRP £129.99)
The Light at the End unites the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors to solve a threat to time, space and, almost as importantly, his very existence! Only one person could be this malevolent: the Master. But will he finally succeed in wiping the Doctor – all the Doctors – from the face of the universe?
http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/updates-series-7-soundtrack-the-light-at-the-end-52487.htm
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Aug 20, 2013 - 7:58 PM
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A party celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is to be held in London in November.
Organised by Jeremy and Paula Bentham together with Tony Clark, The Doc Lands @ 50 Party will be free to attend and will take place at a venue in Docklands on Saturday 23rd November, starting around 7pm after the BBC's Doctor Who 50th Celebration at ExCel has ended that day. The party is open to all people aged 18 and over, whether or not they are going to the ExCel event.
Jeremy told Doctor Who News:
The ultimate form of celebration is getting together to share an enthusiasm. Doctor Who fans have been sharing their passion for the programme since the '70s, but doing it on 23rd November 2013 is definitely the light on top of the police box, and will be a great occasion to don your party hats – fez, stetson, astrakhan, fedora, Paris Beau, or panama . . .
If the broadcast of the anniversary episode and any other Doctor Who programming by the BBC coincides with when the party is taking place, it will be shown on the venue's large-screen TV.
Food and drink will be available to buy at the party – although fish fingers and custard will not necessarily be on the menu!
Entry to The Doc Lands @ 50 Party will be by allocated ticket only, and capacity is strictly limited to 1,500 places. To apply for tickets, e-mail Jeremy at jjbentham@aol.com by Monday 9th September, using the subject line Doc Lands ticket applications and stating your name as well as how many people will be in your group. Before applying, though, people are urged to consider their transport options for getting home afterwards, as the party will finish late.
Successful applicants will be contacted in early November, when they will be told the exact location of the party and will be sent their group or individual tickets too.
Since the show's return to TV in 2005, the organisers have held a series of highly popular event parties in London.
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/08/anniversary-party-190813130017.html
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Aug 29, 2013 - 6:16 AM
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Steven Moffat has claimed that John Hurt is only playing a one-off Doctor in the 50th anniversary special, but could his role in fact be larger, expanded to feature in Peter Capaldi’s debut series? It’s a rumour that is gathering pace.
Hurt himself added fuel to the fire shortly after the Capaldi casting announcement earlier in the month. Hurt congratulated Capaldi on his official Twitter account writing:
“Congratulations, Peter Capaldi. I’m suboth and we will have a lot of fun”
Hurt deleted the tweet shortly after and replaced with:
“Congratulations to Peter Capaldi and to the BBC. Another splendid Doctor!”
Now the second sentence of his first message is confusing, but it appears Hurt intended to write something like: “I’m sure both of us will have a lot of fun.” The second message doesn’t attempt to correct the grammatical mistake, so was he asked to remove it and replace with something less revealing?
When confronted with pictorial evidence of the deleted tweet, Hurt denied any knowledge of ever having written it: “No idea where that came from, Ryan … not from me.”
Curiouser and curiouser…
Further potential hints that Hurt could be playing the ‘8.5' Doctor has also emerged. In a preview of Paul Cornell’s upcoming Doctor Who comic, The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, look at the positioning of the silhouetted Doctor…
The BBC press material all refers to Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor so that doesn’t leave us with many other options.
http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/is-john-hurt-more-than-a-one-off-doctor-52677.htm
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